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For the most part but this is very different. Today we have huge problems like peak oil and peak employment that we didn't have back then. We have a huge energy problem that will take at least 30 years to prepare for and we've done nothing. We may have 5 to 10 years before energy the shortage totally consumes us. Then there's the employment problem (peak employment). The jobs are never coming back. It doesn't matter where they went. We have a growing global population (9 billion people) that need more and more employment while at the same time our technology is removing more and more jobs. Something has to give which equates to sky rocketing unemployment. Look at Europe. There are countries with 15 - 30 percent unemployment. In the U.S. we lie about real unemployment which is closer to 20 perect.

I think Dan Thomas has it right in "Death by Technology". He says that most if not all our problems stem from the rapid advances in our technology. We haven't learned how to control it or ourselves and our old form of government is in no way, shape or form to deal with it. Voting and protesting is futile.

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Wow! Peak oil is a myth. That's why our country and the world is in so much trouble. I know some of the issues get clouded by rhetoric. Climate change, peak oil and peak employment are very serious problem that have gotten much worse because most people don't understand them until it kills thousands of people. Check out the oil drum (http://www.theoildrum.com) on peak oil.